Last Updated on Saturday, 17 September 2016, 13:50 by Denis Chabrol An MMC Security Guard shot and killed one of his colleagues at the security guard’s service’s headquarters at Happy Acres, East Coast Demerara. The incident occurred at about 8 O’clock Saturday morning. The victim has been identified as 36-year old Vibert Verwayne of 710 Block 8, Tuschen, East Bank Essequibo. ...

Last Updated on Friday, 16 September 2016, 21:16 by Denis Chabrol Guyana’s Ministry of Natural Resources on Friday said “intensified” efforts would be made to remove a mining raft, popularly called a draga, that has been blocking the main channel of the Mazaruni River, resulting in difficulties in transporting people and vital food and mining supplies. The ministry did not name ...

Last Updated on Friday, 16 September 2016, 21:01 by Denis Chabrol The European Investment Bank (EIB) will be conducting an appraisal of several projects in Guyana in the coming months as it seeks to return here for the first time in 16 years, possibly with the financing of a deepwater port that could be a springboard for the eventual construction ...

Last Updated on Friday, 16 September 2016, 20:03 by Denis Chabrol Guyana has asked the Chinese telecommunications giant, Huawei, to assess the feasibility of expanding the coastal fibre-optic network to include other areas of the country, even as it downplayed concerns that that company might be engaged in espionage. Head of Guyana’s E-Government Unit, Floyd Levi said the assessment would ...

Last Updated on Friday, 16 September 2016, 18:25 by Denis Chabrol The Guyana government and the National Insurance Scheme on Friday inked an agreement to re-capitalise the cash-strapped social security institution , the National Insurance Scheme (NIS), which had invested in the now failed Colonial Life Insurance Company (CLICO). The first payment of $317,359,002.94 will be made to NIS in ...

Last Updated on Friday, 16 September 2016, 17:01 by Denis Chabrol Education Minister Dr. Rupert Roopnaraine on Friday called on teachers to stop beating students  and instead establish a counselling mechanism within the education system. Delivering remarks at the Education Month rally held at D’urban Park, Dr. Roopnaraine said that corporal punishment must be ousted from schools by “taking the stick and ...